NYU Plans a D.C. Campus in a Single Building

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This vacant lot is the future home of a campus of New York U. (Google Maps image)

New York University plans to build a campus in Washington, D.C., according to a story in the Washington Business Journal. The new campus — which will be called “NYU-D.C.” — will consist of a single building in the 1300 block of L Street N.W.

The 75,000-square-foot building, designed by Hickok Cole Architects, will include five floors of student living space (room for 200 students) as well as classroom facilities. The campus will open with curricula that will be apt for D.C. life and culture: politics, economics, history, journalism, and art history. The center will be finished by 2012, and NYU is aiming for gold certification in the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program.

The Business Journal says that the architects at Hickok Cole had to design a building that would accommodate academic uses during the day and social functions at night. “It was like putting a little Swiss watch together, but we got it to work,” Laurence Caudle, an architect, told the newspaper.